I’ve always been a sucker for a well designed smartphone (honestly, sometimes — late at night — I find myself going online and looking at pics of the HTC One X) and when the bamboo constructed ADzero smartphone was unveiled earlier this year, I just about lost my mind. So radically different, the phone features a bamboo housing so very much unlike the cold, industrial designs we’re currently used to.

Now, the wraps have been taken off the latest protoype “design for manufacture” renders, showing slightly tweaked capacitive buttons, and a clean, polished bamboo, that’s nothing short of gorgeous. The ADzero smartphone will launch with Android 4.0 and its own custom “ADOAS” UI that has yet to be introduced but the company promises will be simple and “coherent” with the AD design philosophy. The phone will initially be offered in the UK, and is scheduled for a late 2012, or early 2013 release. Would you guys rock a bamboo Android device?

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uhhh duhh, amazing. Why cant any big manufacturer take some risks and do something like this, would be huge.

http://twitter.com/gamercore Chris Chavez

I’m actually wondering who will take this design from them. I could definitely see a bamboo edition One X coming down the pipeline. It’s too bad for ADzero they can’t pantent their bamboo design..

Satwik Kamatmehbro

im pretty sure apple patented it the second they heard the news

LawrenceMcatee

Apple patented the word patented, you can expect to hear from their lawyers soon.

http://www.facebook.com/unka.fester Unka Lo Sapio Fester

^So true.

Steven Skwarkowski

Same can be said about all things that grabs people attention. Motorola did it with the Razr and I like it. Carbon fiber, Kevlar, Titanium, Magnesium, Tungsten…all of these would be great and fun material to have on a phone. Id love to have a combination of titanium and a carbon/kevlar mix!

Hrethgir

Looks nice, probably feels good, and won’t interfere with radios. And if you drop it and ding it, you could just sand it out! Or custom carve stuff into it, who knows!

http://twitter.com/gamercore Chris Chavez

Scuffs and dings will actually make it look cooler. “Personalized” even.. Lol

Marsg

how does it handle water though ?

http://www.facebook.com/AlmightyAdam Adam Dave Collins

Hopefully it’ll float! :p

https://plus.google.com/108596272537415356460/posts Jason Farrell

but if it floats, it’s a witch! and we have to burn it. :-!

91firebirder

That would be a really sweet idea and take customizing to a whole new level if it could be carved into!

BigMoeW

I’ld snatch that up in a second

HalfwayCrook

Maybe if it had on screen buttons

RangersK

It’s cooling me already.

Marsg

I hope the internal hardware is as sexy

Wolfram Rittmeyer

Looks terrific. If it only had on-scree-buttons. What we can see of the buttons, they look weird. And why only two?

I didn’t notice any LED on the back w/the camera – Maybe the finished product will address that… Very cool looking and eco-friendly I imagine.

longshot1056

This phone really reminds me a lot of the Lumia 900 and the Sony Ion, that one might just be me seeing it looking like that, but that is what it looks like to me. It is very sleek looking and with the right hardware I would definitely pick one up.

http://twitter.com/tr_slate Travis Slate

I wonder if the bamboo will swell and contract with temp and humidity. I really love the material, but not really digging this particular design. Hopefully this will be a stepping stone for more natural materials. I want my nexus to smell of rich mahogany…

DanWazz

That’s a good looking phone. If I based my phone purchases on looks alone, I’d get one of these.

http://www.facebook.com/Donnieknoxx Donnie Harris

Absolutely beautiful..! Hopefully they add flash for the camera when they release it

http://stevealbright.com Steve Albright

Is this a pocket fire hazard? :-)

Liam

I love the look. Hope it has the specs and chops to go along with it. Hopefully they won’t screw it yo too bad with overlay and bloatware.